John Roebuck

John Roebuck

male, deceased (1794)
John Roebuck (1718 - July 17, 1794) was an English inventor, who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He was born at Sheffield,...

Christian Friedrich Schönbein

male, deceased (1868)
Christian Friedrich Schönbein was a German-Swiss chemist who is most well-known for his discovery of guncotton. In 1838, he discovered the p...
Victor Riesel

Victor Riesel

male, deceased (1995)
Victor Riesel (1917-1995) was an American newspaper journalist who specialized in news related to labor unions. He wrote a column for the "New York...
James Marsh

James Marsh

male, deceased (1846)
James Marsh (September 2, 1794- June 21, 1846) was a chemist who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic. While he was most famous for...

William H. Nichols

male, deceased (1930)
William H. Nichols (1852 - 1930) was a famous chemist and businessman who was instrumental in building the chemical supply business in the U.S. The...
Émile Alphonse Faure

Émile Alphonse Faure

male
Émile Alphonse Faure designed the modern rechargeable lead battery in 1881. His innovation involved coating the cast lead anodes with a paste of l...
Ernst Gottfried Fischer

Ernst Gottfried Fischer

male, deceased (1831)
Ernst Gottfried Fischer was a German chemist. He was born in Hoheneiche near Saalfeld. After studying theology and mathematics at the University of...
Gong Shengliang

Gong Shengliang

male
Pastor Gong Shengliang is the founder and leader of the South China Church (SCC), an evangelical house-church fellowship with some 50,000 members...

Charles Stine

male, deceased (1954)
Charles Milton Altland Stine (1882-1954) was a chemist and a vice-president of E.I. Dupont de Nemours who created the laboratory from which nylon...